treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or select one from a list of five well-known charities …

This paper investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It … tests the effects of various measures of unconditional altruism and conditional or reciprocal altruism. The results show … strong support for conditional or reciprocal altruism. However, people who are self-reported unconditional altruists make …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

Several recent laboratory experiments have shown that the use of explicit incentives - such as conditional rewards and …

field experiment that compares the principal-first and agent-first orderings to each other and a gift-less control …

We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to … subsequent charitable giving. To do so we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … fundraising interventions ranging from soft to hard paternalism. Our design allows us to decompose spillover effects into a pure …

We test whether and, if so, how incentives to promote pro-social behavior affect the extent to which it spills over to … subsequent charitable giving. To do so, we conduct a two-period artefactual field experiment to study repeated donation decisions … fundraising interventions ranging from soft to hard paternalism. Our design allows us to decompose spillover effects into a pure …

Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but … non-routine task and identify the importance of these behavioral aspects. In a natural field experiment (n>1 …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased …